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NYC Update: How to Enjoy NYC Parks Virtually

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Evelyn Kanter

visit nyc parks virtuallyNYC has the greatest parks on the planet, and you can visit them virtually any time while you are observing stay at home rules to help prevent the spread of this horrible disease.

Join in for live park tours, meditation and fitness classes, gardening and houseplant care programs and activities for kids with the Urban Park Rangers and gardeners.

There’s also a live hawk cam and a live Peregrine falcon cam to keep an eye on a pair of red-tail hawks and a pair of falcons which have returned to the same nest for nearly a decade.

You can’t smell the flowers, but you can see them in their full spring glory, including cherry blossoms like these pictured here..

Get your outdoor fix with what’s on schedule this week, weather permitting:


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Monday, March 30

  • Motivation Mondays: Kitchen Workouts on IG Stories

Tuesday, March 31 @ 11:00 a.m.

Join the Urban Park Rangers every Tuesday for live adventures in a different NYC park. 

This week it’s MacNeil Park in College Point, Queens.

The live programs include scenic hikes and nature exploration activities, and are perfect for the whole family.

Watch live on Periscope, Twitter, and Facebook at @nycparks to watch live. Turn on your notifications to view.

  • LIVE with the Urban Park Rangers from MacNeil Park

Wednesday, April 1 @ 11:00 a.m.

Join the Urban Park Rangers every Wednesday (weather permitting) for a walk in the park.  Literally. 

Tune in every Wednesday  to watch spring blossom and the trees leaf out on a live tour of a park.

Watch live on Periscope, Twitter, and Facebook at @nycparks to watch live. Turn on your notifications; we’ll go live on Twitter and Periscope first, then on Facebook!

  • Wednesday Walks: Central Park (LIVE!)

Friday, April 3 

  • Spring-Themed Meditation on YouTube

nyc live cam red-tail hawkNYU Hawk Cam

Follow the red-tail hawks who live on a building ledge adjoining one, Washington Square Park.

In 2011, a pair of Red-tailed Hawks began nesting on a ledge outside the office of New York University’s president on the 12th floor of Bobst Library.

The hawks have returned every year since and, once again in spring 2020 they have been visiting the nest.  That gives us hope the pair will once again nest, lay eggs, incubate them, and raise one or two Red-tail eyasses.

There also are occasionnal live chats with experts.

  • Link to NYU Hawk Cam

There’s also a live cam overlooking a ledge at 55 Water St. in the Financial District. 

This one watches a pair of Peregrine falcons.

  • Link to 55 Water St. live cam

Evelyn Kanter TV appearancesEvelyn Kanter is a native New Yorker who has written for the NY Times, NY Daily News, NY Post, New York Magazine, and is a former on-air reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 and WABC-TV Eyewitness News. 

Evelyn Kanter also is the author of several NYC and Hudson Valley guidebooks, including my latest, 100 Things to Do in NYC Before You Die.

Purchase autographed copies by emailing evelyn@evelynkanter.com

 

 

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Posted by Evelyn Kanter on March 30, 2020 | Updated March 30, 2020 Filed Under: Coronavirus · NYC Parks

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  1. doug says

    March 31, 2020 at 9:49 AM

    The NYU Hawk Cam went off the air, shortly after yesterday’s announcement here. Perhaps it was deluged with viewers?

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